Robert Nagy (robert@) wrote in with a fascinating story of hunting down a
recent problem with ports:
You might have been noticing the amount of commits to ports
regarding autoconf and nested functions and asking yourself…
what the hell is this all about?
Read more…

All the BSD activity for the week was absorbed by EuroBSDCon, I think.
Remember, BSDNow has links to the raw video of EuroBSDCon.
BSD Pizza Night in Oregon. Unfortunately too late by the time I found it, but maybe there will be another?
FreeBSD 10.4-RC2 Available.
FreeBSD status report for 2017Q2.
lscpu for OpenBSD/FreeBSD.
The new TNF (Re [...]

I’ve been having boot issues with a server containing 20 HDD, all behind HBAs. I have decided to start booting off SSDs. In that previous blog post, there was much speculation about where to mount the new drives, etc. In the meantime, I came up with a solution which did not involve magnets and used [...]

For future reference, this is the knew server. It runs a few jails, including Bacula regression testing services. This recent post outlines the modifications so it boots off a mirror of SSDs. File systems Paritions zpools /var/run/dmesg.boot

Errata patches have been released for OpenBSD 6.1 and 6.0.
Out of bounds TCB settings may result in a kernel panic.
Binary updates for the amd64 platform are available via the syspatch
utility. Source code patches can be found on the respective errata
pages:
https://www.openbsd.org/errata60.html
https://www.openbsd.org/errata61.html
A [...]

On my 20x HDD system at home (also known as knew), I am having a recurring problem with booting. This is also the same system mentioned in my FreeBSD Forums thread about some CAM errors. Side note: I now think those CAM errors may be temperature related. Rather than struggle with this issue, I want [...]

FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report - 2nd Quarter 2017
FreeBSD continues to defy the rumors of its demise.
Much of the development work done this quarter was not particularly
visible, especially the effort needed to ensure the upcoming 11.1
release has as few regressions as possible. Planning is also well under
way for the 10.4 m [...]

The
Events and Papers
page of the
OpenBSD website
has been updated to include
links
for the recently-concluded
EuroBSDcon 2017.
Rather than reproduce the links here, we suggest readers head over to
the authoritative source.
Video recordings of individual presentations are not available at the time of writing,
but may be found when [...]

The slate of nominees was voted for and accepted by the members of the foundation. We\'d like to our team of nomcom, voting coordinator, and voting validator for putting together the slate and managing the election process.
We welcome Pierre Pronchery and Makoto Fujiwara to the 2017 Board of Directors. We look forward to working with you [...]

The slate of nominees was voted for and accepted by the members of the foundation. We\'d like to our team of nomcom, voting coordinator, and voting validator for putting together the slate and managing the election process.
We welcome Pierre Pronchery and Makoto Fujiwara to the 2017 Board of Directors. We look forward to working with you [...]

We have released LibreSSL 2.6.2, which will be arriving in the
LibreSSL directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon. This is the third
development release from the 2.6 series, which will eventually be part of
OpenBSD 6.2. It includes the following fixes:
* Provide a useful error with libtls if there are no OCSP URLs in a
peer certifica [...]

The second RC build for the FreeBSD 10.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.